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Poland Gets 1st Openly Gay Rabbi
Fox News ^ | June 23, 2009

Posted on 06/23/2009 2:18:05 PM PDT by lizol

Poland Gets 1st Openly Gay Rabbi

Tuesday, June 23, 2009

WARSAW, Poland — When Rabbi Aaron Katz walks the streets of Warsaw's former Jewish quarter, scenes of that lost world fill his imagination: Families headed to synagogue, women in their kitchens cooking Sabbath meals, his father as a boy with the sidecurls of an Orthodox Jew.

But Katz's life could hardly be more different from that prewar eastern European culture, at least in one key respect: He is Poland's first openly gay rabbi.

Born in Argentina 53 years ago to parents who fled Poland before the Holocaust, Katz is the latest rabbi to play his part in reviving a once vibrant Jewish community that was all but wiped out by Hitler.

He settled into Warsaw's historic Jewish district in March with Kevin Gleason, a former Hollywood producer on such reality TV shows as "The Bachelor" and "Nanny 911," with whom he entered into a registered domestic partnership in Los Angeles two years ago.

They live only three streets from the birth home of Katz's father in a modern and spacious apartment with their dogs, two gentle brown boxers. Katz says he is moved by the links to his past, but keeps his focus on the future.

"I don't think we will come back to this great Jewish life," he said, referring to prewar Poland, a country where one person in 10 was Jewish and where synagogues, yeshivas and shtetls defined the landscape. "But I hope we will have a normal Jewish life in Poland."

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: gay; homosexualagenda; jewish; jews; poland; polishjews; religiousleft
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"Poland Gets 1st Openly Gay Rabbi"

And this is exactly what Poland needed!

Sarcasm off

1 posted on 06/23/2009 2:18:07 PM PDT by lizol
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To: mstar; se99tp; AdvisorB; onedoug; AnalogReigns; The_Media_never_lie; dixiebelle; voteNRA; ...
Eastern European ping list


FRmail me to be added or removed from this Eastern European ping list

2 posted on 06/23/2009 2:20:04 PM PDT by lizol
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To: lizol

A gay Polish Rabbi?
This has the makings of the mother of all off-color jokes...


3 posted on 06/23/2009 2:21:11 PM PDT by counterpunch (In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem. Government is the problem.)
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To: counterpunch

Who stole the Kishka, and where is he hiding it?


4 posted on 06/23/2009 2:23:11 PM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: lizol

So he be a he blew?


5 posted on 06/23/2009 2:23:41 PM PDT by misterrob (A society that burdens future generations with debt can not be considered moral or just)
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To: lizol

Rabbu Tuckman..... faggilas?

Robin Hood......No just merry men.

6 posted on 06/23/2009 2:23:43 PM PDT by Vaquero ("an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: lizol

“Go, meat!...”
“Go, meat!...”
“I said a Beef Hot Links!”
“I said a Beef Hot Links!”
“I said a Beef Hot Links!”
“I said a Beef Hot Links!”
“I said a Brat, Beef Kielbasa, Hot Smoked Sausage, Cheddarwurst!”
“I said a Brat, Beef Kielbasa, Hot Smoked Sausage, Cheddarwurst!”
“When I say Hillshire, you say Farms! Hillshire!”
“Farms!”
“GO MEAT!!!”


7 posted on 06/23/2009 2:25:54 PM PDT by RichInOC (No! BAD Rich! (What'd I say?))
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To: lizol

What an abomination.

I read this quote from the article:
“He keeps a kosher home”

Homosexual acts are not kosher


8 posted on 06/23/2009 2:26:49 PM PDT by Mount Athos (A Giant luxury mega-mansion for Gore, a Government Green EcoShack made of poo for you)
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To: Mount Athos

Oy veh!


9 posted on 06/23/2009 2:28:28 PM PDT by Radl (sai)
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To: Vaquero

“fagalas?”


10 posted on 06/23/2009 2:28:42 PM PDT by SIDENET ("Join me or die. Can you do any less?" -Mr. Sparkle)
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To: Mount Athos

I think they were just talking about his sausage.


11 posted on 06/23/2009 2:29:38 PM PDT by counterpunch (In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem. Government is the problem.)
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To: lizol

“women in their kitchens cooking Sabbath meals”

I hope not only Jewish readers caught the problem with that phrase.

Maybe fires are also OK in the form of Judaism that also permits sodomy.


12 posted on 06/23/2009 2:33:40 PM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
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To: lizol

Is he kosher?/


14 posted on 06/23/2009 2:37:56 PM PDT by Califreak (Dissident under duress)
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To: lizol

I guess he never read the old testament.


15 posted on 06/23/2009 2:40:31 PM PDT by omega4179 (America is a Christian Nation.)
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To: counterpunch

A gay Polish Rabbi walks into a bar...


16 posted on 06/23/2009 2:42:10 PM PDT by Signalman
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A gay Polish Rabbi walks into a bar... with a one eyed parrot on his shoulder...
17 posted on 06/23/2009 2:49:23 PM PDT by jws3sticks (Zer0 and Hillary can take a very long walk on a very short pier, anytime, and the sooner the better!)
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To: SIDENET
spell check didn't tell me the right way to spell ‘fagalas’...

so now I must be... banished to the land of wind and ghosts “Mr. Sparkle”

18 posted on 06/23/2009 2:49:31 PM PDT by Vaquero ("an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: jws3sticks
Why did the gay midget Polish Rabbi get kicked out of the bar...

because he kissed everybody in the joint.

19 posted on 06/23/2009 2:53:12 PM PDT by Vaquero ("an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: lizol

Disgusting. Stop calling him a “rabbi”. You have to actually observe the Torah to be a rabbi.


20 posted on 06/23/2009 3:09:32 PM PDT by FreepShop1
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